Individual courses

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, highlighting its revolutionary impact on the history of philosophy.

This course explores the major philosophical currents that shaped Latin American identity throughout the 20th century. 

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Martin Heidegger’s philosophy through a study of his central question: the meaning of Being. 

Metaphysics is the study of things in their ultimate causes. As such, the specialty of metaphysics is that it seeks the final explanation or the ultimate causes of things precisely in so far as they are, in so far as they exist, or in so far as they are real. Aristotle called it “First Philosophy” or “Theology” since it leads to the first principle or the ultimate explanation of all things.

All human knowledge begins with sense experience but can terminate sometimes in the senses, or in the imagination or in the intellect alone . Accordingly we can distinguish between three levels of scientific knowledge corresponding to the three degrees of abstraction from matter which can be made by the intellect in its examination of reality.

This course offers a systematic introduction to Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Being, the branch of philosophy that studies being as being and investigates the ultimate causes and principles of reality. 

An introduction to the Fathers of the Church, from Ignatius of Antioch to John of Damascus: Writers, doctors, pastors, the Fathers of the Church

This course will engage the question of how we are to construe the relationship that obtains between body and soul/mind. Rather than adopting a purely historical approach, beginning with Aristotle, the text begins with an exposition of three different contemporary treatments of this issue before proceeding to expound important aspects of Aristotle’s and St. Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics of human nature.

This course has been written to assist the audience to understand the philosophical underpinnings and its relevance to the complex situations of the 21st century, but also to allow learners to determine and appreciate the role of philosophy in education.   

This course explores the major questions and debates in the philosophy of language through a selection of foundational texts from the analytic tradition and its critics. 

Logic equips individuals with the required skills to identify errors, known as fallacies in an argument. Logic generally studies the relations the mind creates between different products or contents of intellectual knowledge; that is perceptions, propositions and arguments, and seeks to understand the different relations, which arise in the human mind when it knows things. This comprehensible course on logic is divided into two parts: the second part (sections III and IV) on formal logic focus on the core aspects of categorical syllogisms.  

Just as pertinent knowledge and expertise are required when making right decisions and choices, certain skills and rules are necessary when attempting to reason correctly. Equipping one with logical skills and rules is the major aim of logic or philosophy of logic. This comprehensible course on logic is divided into two parts: the first part (sections I and II) give an overview of logic and common informal fallacies.

This course introduces the philosophy of religion as the philosophical study of religious questions, focusing on the existence and nature of a Supreme Being. 

The impact of science, not only on the world we inhabit, but also on the world of philosophy, is undeniable.

olitical philosophy is a branch of philosophy that studies essential questions about various political issues, concepts and problems that are important to any human society. 

Part One includes: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist.

Part Two includes: Anointing, Reconciliation, Marriage, Ordination.

This course intends to familiarize the students with the debates and contributions of the main philosophical scholars and theories which have developed through history from the time of Greek Sophists through the XXth century. 

This course offers an introduction to the nature, purpose, and development of philosophy. It explores what philosophy is, why it has remained a central intellectual discipline, and how it relates to other fields of inquiry, particularly theology. 

This course offers a rigorous and critical examination of the philosophical system of Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677), one of the central figures of early modern rationalism. 

St. Thomas Aquinas on Man as made to the Image of the Trinity and on the Trinitarian God in whose Image we are made and to whom we are Conformed.

Grace is God’s life in us, the authentic life of our human spirit or what our life is truly called to be. Without our participation in the life of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Trinity) through baptism, we cannot truly be Christian and without grace we cannot truly live a Christian life.

A specialised course in Thomistic issues by fr. Gilles Emery, OP,  a leading specialist in this discipline !

For MA students only

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity part II

Trinity part III

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity Part I

Trinity Part III

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity Part I

Trinity Part II